This is most obvious as a Death Trope (everyone except the lunatic dies), so expect UNMARKED SPOILERS!!!

Examples

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Comic Books

By the end of Marvel Zombies 4, it appears that the severed head of Zombie Deadpool has escaped the destruction of all the other super-zombies.

Johnny from Johnny the Homicidal Maniac, which is Exactly What It Says on the Tin, manages to avoid being arrested for or even suspected of any of his murders. This trope is taken to an extreme as said murders include draining the blood of a flower vendor, on a crowded street in broad daylight, with numerous horrified witnesses present.

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Film

Maggie Gyllenhaal's character, Raven, in Cecil B. Demented definitely qualifies as the craziest of the Sprocket Holes (and that's saying something). Making this example particularly egregious is when Honey Whitlock (Melanie Griffith's character) is being arrested, Raven actually calls to her, to tell her the movie's finished, and throws Honey a devil-kiss, and not one cop notices her, as she then hides in the back of a hearse.

Garland Greene, Steve Buscemi's character in Con Air. At the end, when all the other convicts are either dead or being arrested, Greene just walks off into the Sunset Strip and starts gambling. In spite of being a famous serial killer, he was never a part of the escape plan and never does anything bad during the course of the film.

In Menace II Society, pretty much every main character, both sympathetic and not, dies by the end, except for the main protagonist's completely unsympathetic, psychotic, trigger-happy partner, who gets arrested in the end.

In Braveheart, before the Battle of Stirling Bridge, crazy Irish guy declares that God told him he would survive the battle, but he wasn't so sure about the main character. Turns out both of them survive. This turns out to be foreshadowing, since at the end of Wallace's revolt he's brutally killed while the Irish guy looks on helplessly (while not dying).

Captain Jack Sparrow rides on a wave of such loopholes through the movies.

In the fourth one, efforts are made to make it look more planned than stumbled through. YMMV on how good of a choice that was.

Literature

David Gemmell's Echoes of the Great Song has an Elric-style Failing ex-Master Race. They are attacked by invaders from another world and the book ends with a suicide mission to blow up the enemy ammunition dump. The only survivor is the one who disabled the Stun Setting on his Laser Bow because he can't think of any time he would point it at anything without wanting to kill it.

Murdock of The A-Team occasionally escaped arrest when the rest of the team was arrested.

Doctor Who. The Doctor's not completely crazy (probably) but it has been proposed that one of the reasons that the Big Bads generally spare his life is that they're genuinely curious about the way his mind works. (Of course, narrative causality probably carries a bit of weight too...)

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